Paper.li is an online platform that lets users create their own newspaper made up of content found on the Web. To start your paper, click the Create a Paper button. You'll choose a name, topic, and any description; then you'll be taken to a dashboard. Type in a topic and the source you'd like the content to come from (options are Twitter, Facebook, RSS, YouTube, and more). A list of links will populate; choose the ones you'd like to add to your paper by clicking the plus sign next to each. When you've added all the sources, Paper.li will take a few minutes to "print" your paper, bringing together all those links into a tidy page. Papers are visually customizable; you can choose formats and fonts to personalize design. You can choose how often your "paper" updates.
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform featuring current articles in seven categories: War & Peace, Science, Health, Kids, Money, Law, and Arts. It's updated weekly, and all articles are Common Core-aligned and available in five different Lexile levels, ranging (roughly) from third to 12th grade. Many of the articles are accompanied by a comprehension quiz. Newsela's resources are free to students; all of the site's articles and quizzes, as well as the annotation tool, are available for open online use. For teachers, the paid PRO subscription offers the site's most useful options. These include a dashboard to manage students' assignments and view both individual and class results, tracking progress toward meeting the related Common Core standards. |
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